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9/11IAN URQUHART SARAWAK CINEREEL 14 of 23
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- Publication date
- 1958
- Usage
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
- Topics
- Cinereel, Silent Standard 8mm, Sarawak, Malaysia, Borneo
- Rights
- Unless stated otherwise all rights for commercial use is retained by the Urquhart family (Alexa Young, Neil Urquhart and Murdo Urquhart).
- Item Size
- 802.0M
Filmed on Silent Standard 8mm film by former British civil service officer, Ian Urquhart in Baram District, 4th Division, Sarawak, Malaysia, 1954-1965. Restored and digitised at 24fps. Ian's annotations have been transcribed in their original form. Known acronyms are described. See below for more information about Ian Urquhart.
Reel 14 Annotations
Cockfighting, 1958 and 1961.
At Serian in 1961. Land Dayaks, Ibans and Chinese. At Sibu in 1958.
Chinese and Ibans.
Close up of tying on a spur to a cock's leg.
Small boys watching from trees.
Food stalls have been set up.
Chinese and Ibans.
Close up of tying on a spur to a cock's leg.
Small boys watching from trees.
Food stalls have been set up.
About Ian Urquhart
Ian
Urquhart was a decorated British soldier, posted to Sarawak, where he
served from 1947 to 1965. A brilliant linguist with an abiding interest
in learning about other people and their cultures, he was a natural fit
to be a civil service officer.
In addition to
his administrative duties, he studied the indigenous communities he
encountered focusing on their varied languages. From 1951 to 1959, Ian
published several articles published by the Sarawak Museum Journal.
It
was during this period that he conducted many trips into the jungles of
Sarawak, in particular the Kelabit highlands and the Ulu Baram. From
1957 his wife Bunty accompanied him and contributed to some of the
filming.
It was these trips that he documented
on Silent Standard/Regular 8mm colour and b/w cinefilm leaving his
family and the people of Sarawak with not only a detailed account of his
life there, he annotated all 30 reels, 23 of which are available in
this collection.
Credits
Camera - Ian Urquhart
Restoration and digitization - R3store, London
Archive research and production - Andrew Garton in collaboration with Alexa Young, Neil Urquhart and Murdo Urquhart
